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Surname
DUDDERIDGE
Forename
Charles Henry
Day
01
Month
03
Year
1905
Age
15
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Backworth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Owners of Backworth Collieries
Location
Backworth
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Died 2nd March. He was driving 4 full tubs into a landing sitting on the coals on the first tub when he got into the landing he leaned forward to take the cotteril out of the bolt of the limbers and succeeded in doing so and the pony walked away but he overbalanced himself and fell before the tubs and was crushed by the axles of the first tub which was thrown off the rails. The road was level and in good order with plenty of height. The Local Inspectors made no written report but were examined at the Inquest when they suggested that ponies should be stopped before the limbers were released.